Sorry it has taken so long for an update. No photos yet (sorry, guys!), but I've been SO BUSY!
I got a second job at the clinic where I did my phlebotomy clinicals. I now work there under a "temporary pool" position. Basically, that means that I work most Fridays and an occasional Monday. Today is one of those Mondays. I still work full-time at the nursing home, where I work four days a week. So, on my weeks that I work Monday and Friday at the lab, that means that I only have one day off in a seven-day period. Unfortunately, because I work every-other-weekend at the nursing home, that means that for every 14 days, I only get 2 off. Then I have to wait another 12 days to get another day off. Some Mondays and Fridays I am off, but yeah. Once school starts in August, I don't know what I am going to do. I am going to be applying for a full-time phlebotomy position at the hospital soon. If I can get that, I can stay pool for the lab, and I can probably go to a pool position at the nursing home. Then, I only have to work one weekend a month.
We are still apartment shopping. That one apartment that looked promising fell through. He said that my pets "wouldn't be a good fit here". He was fine with them before, so I don't know what happened.
We technically have until the end of August to find a place, but we were hoping to get into one by July or August 1st. We still have two months, so we'll be fine!
I had the bun-buns out for run-time yesterday. They haven't been out in awhile (due to the business and messy apartment factors). Toby bolted around for awhile, then nestled under an empty plant stand. Sammi didn't want to come out into the apartment, so she got to run around in the bedroom. When I let them out, I normally confine Sammi to the smaller bedroom (she doesn't come out into the living room, anyways), and Toby gets the hallway and living room (sometimes the dining room, too, but it's too messy for that). After awhile, I put Toby back so Sammi could come out to the hallway if she wanted to. She just would sit at the end of the hallway (by the bedroom), stare at me down the hallway, then thump and run back into the bedroom. When I went into the bedroom to investigate, she was laying next to Toby. Toby was in his pen, but they were "cuddled" next to each other through the bars. So, I decided to do a bunny date. Bad idea. Toby kept lunging and biting Sammi. I removed them from one another, and Sammi looked so hurt. She was physically fine, but I don't know about her "feelings". She just looked sad and confused. She even came up to me while I was sitting on the floor and put her front toe-sies on my leg, looking for head pets. When I obliged, she pancaked out with her front feet still on my leg. It was so cute. She has the capability of being a cutie, so why doesn't she do this all of the time? As for Toby, he was put back in his pen in "time-out", while Sammi continued to prance around the bedroom.
On a sad note, Ish Kabibble the finch died yesterday.
I checked her two days ago for food/water, and she was fine. Yesterday evening, though, she was dead on the floor of her cage. When I was emptying the cage, I noticed that the food was stuck in the tube entrance, so no food was coming out. When I checked it the other day, there was food coming out, so I don't know if she just got sick and died, or if (at a max.) two days without food did.
I feel horrible right now. The feeders are those gravity-assisted ones where you fill a clear tube that spills out into a little feeding trough. It keeps the poo out of the food/water area. It worked well for the time we had them, but this time it just clogged up.
RIP, little Ish Kabibble. You're with Leonardo Da Finchi now. :rainbow:
